video shared on Instagram The Harris-Waltz campaign claims it hired an actor to run campaign ads posing as a former Republican who is currently voting for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Verdict: False

This claim is not accurate. Sky News, which first reported the claim, issued a correction.

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Harris reportedly called Iran the United States’ greatest foreign adversary in an interview Monday night and cited Iran’s ballistic missile attacks on Israel as a reason for her concern. fox news. According to the report, she also said she believed the country should never have access to nuclear power and that ensuring that was her “top priority,” but that she would not deploy the military to do so. The report did not comment on whether or not it would be dispatched.

An Instagram video appears to show a Sky News broadcast recently reporting that a couple who appeared in a Harris campaign ad were paid actors and were not sharing their real story.

“(The Harris Walz campaign) released a political ad that they claim depicts two former Trump voters in Pennsylvania who switched to Team Kamala after the January 6 tragedy, but the ad “The two farmers shown in the video are actually two actors, Robert Lange and Christina Chadwick,” the reporter said in part, going on to claim that the couple had a history of donating to the Democratic Party.

This claim is inaccurate. While it is true that the video is a genuine Sky News broadcast, the media outlet issued the following statement: correction Meanwhile, an Instagram post indicating the canceled broadcast was not shared until the next day. (Related: Kamala Harris’ Facebook post falsely claims she quoted from Karl Marx)

“During a discussion of Kamala Harris’ campaign video on the Sept. 26 show, it was described that the people who appeared in the campaign ad were actors with a history of donating to the Democratic Party,” it reads. “In light of additional information we have learned, we are correcting the record that the individuals involved are not actors and do not appear to be donors to the Democratic Party.”

According to local news in Philadelphia, Bob Lang voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020, and his wife voted for Trump in 2016 but not at all in 2020. WPVI-TV. “The claims that we are Democrats, the claims that we are paid actors, and the claims that we contributed to Democratic campaigns are all lies,” Christina Lange said. USA Today.

Check Your Fact has reached out to the Harris-Waltz campaign for comment.